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The Montpellier Codex: The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies

The Montpellier Codex: The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies

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Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, Book 16

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ISBN10: 1783272724
ISBN13: 9781783272723
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Feb 16 2018
Pages: 352
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music.

The Montpellier Codex (Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H.196) occupies a central place in scholarship on medieval music. This small book, packed with gorgeous gold leaf illuminations, historiated initials, and exquisite music calligraphy, is one of the most famous of all surviving music manuscripts, fundamental to understandings of the development of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphonic composition. At some point in its historyan eighth section (fascicle) of 48 folios was appended to the codex: when and why this happened has long perplexed scholars. The forty-three works contained in the manuscript's final section represent a collection of musical compositions, assembled at a complex moment of historical change, straddling the historiographical juncture between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

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